Package construction and blank therefor



Nov. 4, 1969 s. v. SKOWRONSKI PACKAGE CONSTRUCTION AND BLANK THEREFOR 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed June 17, 1968 INVENTOR.

N 9 5. v. SKOWRONSKI PACKAGE CONSTRUCTION AND BLANK THEREFOR 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed June 1'7, 1968 INVENTOR.

N v- 4. 1969 G. v. SKOWRONSKI PACKAGE CONSTRUCTION AND BLANK THEREFOR 3 SheetsSheet Filed June 17, 1968 INVENTOR.

United States Patent US. Cl. 206-47 8 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A package construction of a dispenser carton and rigid holder therefor held by an encircling paperboard blank which constitutes an overwrap means. The dispenser carton rests on locking members of the holder. The paperboard overwrap permits a partial view of the contents and is provided with an easy opening means.

Background of the invention This invention pertains to a package construction and more particularly to a special package for a dispenser carton and rigid holder therefor to be shipped in a specially designed blank therefor In my copending patent application entitled Frame Holder and Blank Therefor filed concurrently herewith, there is disclosed a dispenser carton and rigid plastic holder adapted to suspend a dispenser carton from a wall or the like in cantilever fashion. The holder has no moving parts and is adapted to receive the base portion of the dispenser carton in telescopic manner until the carton and holder are interlocked. After the interlock is established, the carton cannot be removed except by destruction of the carton.

It is desired in accordance with the present invention to provide a shipping package for the set consisting of a dispenser carton and holder in which the elements of the set are uniquely retained in close cooperative, par tially telescoped but not interlocked position until an installation of the holder is desired.

Summary of the invention The present invention thus comprises a combination display type package in which a dispenser carton and a frame-like rigid holder therefor are packaged together as a unit in a partially nested, but not lockedly engaged, position. The combined dispensing carton and holder are maintained as a merchandisable unit by a sleeve-like overwrapping carton having certain panels thereof adapted to permit a display of a substantial portion of the holder with the dispensing carton partially nested therein, thereby promoting the sale of the combined unit by allowing a potential customer to view the attractive appearance of the dispenser carton and its holder without disturbing the integrity of the overall package.

Description of the drawings The inherent advantages and improvements of the present invention will become more readily apparent upon considering the following detailed description of the invention and by reference to the drawings, in which:

FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of the assembled package;

FIGURE 2 is a perspective view similar to FIGURE 1 immediately prior to tucking the front and rear cover flaps in;

FIGURE 3 is a cross-sectional view, slightly enlarged, taken along line 33 of FIGURE 1 but showing the front cover flap in its untucked position;

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FIGURE 4 is a fragmentary front view, slightly enlarged, of one end of the package of FIGURE 1;

FIGURE 5 is a plan view of the blank used to enclose the dispenser carton and holder therefor; and

FIGURE 6 is a perspective view of the rigid holder for the dispenser carton.

While the various features of this invention are hereinafter illustrated and described as being especially adapted for use in connection with a particular dispenser carton and holder therefor, it is to be understood that the various features of this invention can be utilized singly or in combination thereof in connection With the display of other cartons and/or holders.

Therefore, the invention is not to be limited merely to .the embodiment illustrated in the drawings, because the drawings are utilized merely to illustrate one of a wide variety of uses of this invention.

Description of the preferred embodiment Referring now to FIGURE 1 of the drawings, there is illustrated a package indicated generally at 10. The package 10 comprises a carton overwrap means, indicated generally at 11, a rigid plastic holder, indicated generally at 12, and a dispenser carton C.

The rigid plastic holder 12 is illustrated best in FIG URE 6 wherein the holder is shown to have a rear edge at 14 which is placed against a wall or other suitable supporting structure when the holder is installed. A vertically outwardly extending portion 16 of the holder leads to a sloping portion 18 thereof and a front or face portion 20 of the holder which parallels the rear edge 14 and the attaching structure. Holder 12 is also provided With an inner wall 22 which is interrupted by upstanding or protruding locking members 24. The surfaces 18, 20 and 22 constitute a peripherally extending frame for telescopically receiving the base portion of carton C. A pair of mounting panels 26 are molded integrally with the remainder of the plastic rigid holder 12. An aperture 28, incident to the retractible mold elements utilized in forming the locking members 24 during the molding of the frame, extends behind each locking member 24 and into the mounting panels 26.

In order to attach the holder to a suitable support means, there is provided a pressure-sensitive adhesive 30 on the rear surface of rigid holder 12. A thin piece of release-coated paper (not shown) protects the adhesive surface 30 until it is desired to secure the holder to the desired structure.

As an alternate means for attaching the holder to a wall or the like, mounting panels 26 are each provided with an aperture 34 through which a screw may be inserted in order to attach the holder to a wall. When used in this manner, the pressure-sensitive adhesive is removed from mounting panels 26.

The dispenser carton C is provided with a plurality of locking slits indicated generally at 36, each of which is formed with a vertical extension slit at each end which combine to define a deflectable tab the wall of the carton. Preferably each of the slits 36 is interrupted by a very narrow bridge of uncut sheet material. These small bridges are ruptured by the locking members 24 on rigid holder 12 when the carton is fully inserted in telescopic manner into the holder. In this connection, it will be observed that each locking member 24 on holder 12 is substantially triangular in shape with a sloping surface which extends outwardly and rearwardly toward the rear or base of holder 12. Each sloping surface acts to force the opposing tab inwardly of the carton Wall to allow locking abutment of the locking slits with the holder locking members when the dispenser carton is fuly telescoped into the holder 12.

Because of the fact that once the interlock is established the carton cannot be removed except by destruction thereof, it is preferred in making the package assembly of this invention that the dispenser carton C be prevented from interlocking with the holder 12 until the customer has removed the overwrap preparatory to installation of the carton and bolder unit. To this end, carton C is merely nested within the inner wall 22 of holder 12 and rests on locking members 24 (and optionally a spacer means 66 placed between the rear face of the carton and mounting panels 26), as will be more fully described hereinafter.

Referring now to FIGURE 5, there is illustrated a preferred sleeve-like wrapping means for the package construction of the present invention. Blank 11 is illustrated to have a side panel 38 hingedly connetced to a top panel 40. The latter is hingedly connected to a side panel 42 which in turn is hingedly connected to a bottom panel 44. A glue flap 46 is illustrated at the end of blank 11 hingedly connected to bottom panel 44. Obviously, the glue flap may be hingedly connected at the end of a blank to other panels 38, 40 or 42 as desired with an appropriate rearrangement of the order of the panels.

A front panel 48 and a rear panel 50 are hingedly connected throughout their respective lengths to opposite sides of top panel 40 as is shown in FIGURE 5. It is important feature of the present invention that the front panel 48 and rear panel 50 have a width less than the height of side panels 38 and 40 so that, when the wrapping sleeve is erected, front panel 48 and rear panel 50 do not extend from the top panel 40 all the way to bottom panel 44. In this manner, it is possible to display the holder 12 while wrapped by the blank 11 as is clearly illustrated in FIGURES 1-3.

The front panel 48 is provided with an edge extension 52 which is capable of being tucked inside the holder 12 to lie between the inner wall 22 of the holder and the wall of the dispenser carton C. The front panel 48 is provided with a pair of end flaps indicated at 54 which are tucked into the package adjacent the side panels 38 and 42 of the overwrap means. Similarly, rear panel 50 is provided with an edge extension 56 and a pair of end flaps 58.

It is desired to provide an easy opening means for the overwrap. Thus a tear strip means, indicated generally at 60, is provided in one of the side panels such as side panel 42. The tear strip means 60 is formed by angled cuts 62, sometimes designated J-cuts, which are parallel spaced to proivde the tear strip means 60. A convenient grasping tab 64 is proivded at one end of the tear strip by a pair of V-shaped cuts substantially in line with the rows of angled cuts 62.

FIGURE 3 illustrates the use of a spacer 66, suitably of paperboard, which may be employed as an optional feature in order to ensure that the dispenser carton C does not accidentally become fully telescoped within holder 12 whereby the locking slits 36 on the dispenser carton come into locking abutment with locking members 24 on holder 12.

In assembling the package construction of this invention, it is convenient to form the overwrap blank 11 into sleeve-like tubular shape by securing the glue flap 46 on bottom panel 44 to side panel 38 and then to insert the sub-assembly of the dispenser carton C and rigid holder therefor 12 laterally into the sleeve with rear panel 50 and front panel 48 in extended position, as shown in FIGURE 2. In the next step, the front and rear panels are folded downwardly so as to permit their edge exten sions 52 and 56, respectively, to snap past the frame on holder 12 defined by surfaces 18, 20 and 22. During the folding operation, end flaps 54 and 58 are also tucked inside the package to lie between the walls of the carton C and the respective side panels 38 and 42. FIGURE 3 thus shows the rear panel 50 in assembled position with front panel 48 still to be tucked inside the frame of the 4 holder 12 in order to effect the position shown in FIG- URE 1.

As has been noted, the dispenser carton cannot be disengaged from the holder 12 once an interlock has been established except by destroying the locking slits 36 on the dispenser carton C. Because of this, in order to allow easy removal of the carton from the holder by a consumer for purposes of mounting the holder on a Wall, it is desirable to prevent full engagement of the locking slits 36 with the locking members 24 in the holder by using a means for preventing full engagement thereof such as may be accomplished conveniently by means of a paperboard spacer 66. Alternatively, the dispenser carton C may be placed in the holder in inverted position so that the locking slits are removed a substantial distance from the locking members of the holder, and interlocking of these elements is thereby effectively prevented.

It will be apparent that the package construction of the present invention permits the dispenser carton and holder to be positioned in what may be referred to as a nesting position but not a locking position. Furthermore, the overwrap sleeve means, by having foreshortened front and rear panels 48 and 50 permits a customer to view a substantial amount of the holder 12 along "with a portion of the decoratively printed dispenser carton. In like manner, the cooperative snap-fitted interlock between panels 43, 50 and frame 12 provides a readily assembled package of a substantially tamperproof character, and wherein the use of glued or adhesively bonded overwrap panels is minimized.

It is thought that the invention and many of its attendant advantages will be understood from the foregoing description, and it will be apparent that various changes may be made in the form, construction and arrangement of the parts without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, the form hereinbefore described being merely a preferred embodiment thereof.

I claim:

1. A package of a dispenser carton and holder therefor held within an overwrap carton and comprising:

(a) a dispenser carton,

(b) a holder for telescopically retaining said carton in dispensing position, said holder having means for receiving the base portion of said carton in a first, partially nested relationship and in a second, nested and interlocked relationship wherein the base portion of the carton is fully telescoped within the holder, and

(c) a sleeve-like overwrap means retaining said carton and bolder together in said first, partially nested relationship to form a merchandisable unitary package.

2. A package as defined in claim 1 wherein said overwrap means comprises a paperboard carton having:

(a) top panel means engaging said carton,

(b) bottom panel means engaging said holder,

(c) side panel means interconnecting said top panel means and said bottom panel means While engaging the sides of said dispenser carton and said holder,

(d) and front and rear panels hingedly secured to said top panel means,

(1) said front and rear panels being of lesser width than the height of said side panel means, whereby a substantial portion of the front and rear of said holder remain exposed.

3. A package as defined in claim 2 wherein one of said side panel means of said overwrap means is provided with a tear strip means whereby said overwrap means may be removed easily from said carton and said holder.

4. A package as defined in claim 2 wherein said front and rear panels are provided with edge extensions on their side edges opposite their hinged securement to said top panel means.

5. A package as defined in claim 4 wherein said front and rear panels are engageable with said inner wall surface of said holder.

6. A carton blank adapted to provide overwrap means for a dispenser carton and holder therefor comprising:

(a) hingedly connected side, bottom and top panels,

(b) a glue flap hingedly connected to one of said side, top and bottom panels whereby said carton may be hingedly folded to form a sleeve,

(c) front and rear panels hingedly connected to opposite sides of said top panel,

(d) and each of said front and rear panels having a length less than the height of said side panels whereby contents of said carton may be viewable beneath said front and rear panels when said contents are supported by said bottom panel.

7. A carton blank as defined in claim 6 wherein one of said side panels is provided with a tear strip which extends laterally for the width of said side panel whereby said carton may be opened after being formed into a sleeve.

8. A package comprising:

(a) a dispenser carton,

(b) a holder disposed in peripherally surrounding relation to the base section of said carton, and,

(c) an enclosing overwrap for said carton and holder,

((1) said overwrap including an open-ended sleeve portion within which said carton and holder are received,

(e) and panel means carried by said sleeve portion at opposite ends thereof disposed in interengaged relation with said carton and holder including a portion thereof disposed between said carton and holder to form an interlocked package unit.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,003,207 10/ 1961 Powers 229-40 X JOSEPH R. LECLAIR, Primary Examiner J. M. CASKIE, Assistant Examiner US. Cl. X.R. 

